Kingdom of Rhodes

The Kingdom of Rhodes was a petty kingdom that survived from 1080 until 1122, when the Kingdom of Castile defeated their forces in battle and occupied the island. Formerly a settlement of the Byzantine Empire, the island netted fish and trade income as a naval base. Long the jealousy of the Greeks, the Turks, and Venice, it was finally occupied by the Castilians in 1122, killing Asemopoulos of Rhodes and many of his men. Rhodes was a Castilian naval base until Evangelos Extrochos and Emperor John Comnenus occupied the island in 1167.